High refresh rate and oculomotor adaptation facilitate reading from video displays

Spatial Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 305-322

  Montegut, Michael J ^a,b   Bridgeman, Bruce ^a   Sykes, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DATA DISPLAY; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SAMPLING; VISION;

READING RATE; REFRESH RATES; VIDEO DISPLAY TERMINALS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 0030612814     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856897X00230     Document Type: Article

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